Bed and I dated long distance, so I never had a chance to cook for her! If I did, I would've cooked either my rissoto or my pesto chicken. Both recipes are from my friend's Italian dad, and they are crowdpleasers.
It was all smokes and mirrors though... I couldn't really cook. I just had a few magic recipes.
When you were dating, what meals did you cook to impress your SO?
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
Nothing much. I picked lots of nice restaurants for us to go to!
wonderful pea / 17279 posts
The first meal I made for him was baked salmon, rice pilaf, asparagus, and Greek salad. He loved it! I had no idea salmon was his favorite fish.
We were LD and he drove to see me one time. His arrival was while I was at work so I made a pasta dish for him to snack on. mIt had sauteed bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, Italian dressing marinated chicken, and then I simmered everything in a vodka sauce. This was all tossed in about a pound pasta. When I got home there was nothing left.
bananas / 9899 posts
DH and I were long distance too, but we did visit each other from time to time. I made him garlic and herb whole chicken to try and impress him. It worked.
coconut / 8079 posts
We were LD but saw each other most weekends. I cooked for him but can't remember what I made besides the total pork chop fail!
pomelo / 5678 posts
He knew I couldn't cook when I met him! He made me chicken dumpling soup on demand... an old favorite!
eggplant / 11824 posts
Nothing - my husband helped me learn to cook! He cooked plenty of meals for me though: roast chicken with Tuscan beans, big spinach salads with pancetta, fish tacos, wilted greens tacos, chicken and mole....the list goes on and on! He definitely earned bonus points in the kitchen!!
honeydew / 7444 posts
We were l/d too so we went crazy with the meals when we visited. I made potato wrapped sea bass with a leek-Barolo sauce that was quite impressive!
apricot / 344 posts
I didn't really try to impress him... I wanted to keep his expectations real low, as to not set him up for disappointment later! Haha. It worked.
clementine / 899 posts
I made a shredded turkey enchilada once and paired it with spicy corn when we were dating about 4 years ago or so. Nothing too impressive, just something I had tried at a conference and the cook gave out the recipe so decided to try making it myself. And now, DH still asks for it to this day, as recently as yesterday.
honeydew / 7667 posts
I didn't cook much - we ate out a lot but I did make him Butternut squash risotto.
cherry / 185 posts
I had just taken a few cooking lessons when DH and I started dating. I was proud of my new skills and made him homemade pasta. Then I learned that his mom was an accomplished cook who had won state cooking contests and co-authored two cookbooks! My confidence in my cooking deflated a little bit, but DH seemed to appreciate whatever I made for him.
@Andrea: good plan!
@PEAPIE: haha!
cantaloupe / 6171 posts
I don't remember cooking anything in particular to try to impress him early on-- maybe lasagna? He looooves to cook so he usually cooked for me (still does!) or we'd cook together. I don't think we did much cooking early on though, we mostly ate out the first couple months of dating
GOLD / coconut / 8266 posts
@PEAPIE: hahaha, that's a great idea!
I make a mean (and somewhat lean) penne a la vodka. I'm more of a baker.
grapefruit / 4213 posts
Chicken parm with my homemade sauce, oven roasted chicken with all the fixin's, roast beef au jus, homemade crab cakes, baked stuffed haddock, etc. I like cooking.
honeydew / 7917 posts
No. I didn't know how to cook, and DH knew it at the time too. Somehow he was confident that I would learn over time.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
Chicken paprikash, chicken marsala and I introduced him to sushi. It was love at first yellowtail.
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